Notepad++ 8.6.8

Version 8.6.8 of Notepad++ has been released. This extensive text editor has various options that are especially useful for programmers, such as syntax highlighting for C, C++, Java, HTML, XML and PHP, among others. The program also offers the option to edit more than one document at the same time or maintain one document in two different places. If you want to use the latest version, you must download it yourself. Notepad++'s built-in updater only offers updates a week after their release, in order to resolve any serious bugs. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Notepad++ v8.6.8 bug fixes & enhancements:

• Fix a crash in Column Editor caused by an arithmetic overflow. (Fix #15144)
• Fix the issue where any negative repeat value in Column Editor causes a hang. (Fix #15153)
• Fix an extra space being inserted in HEX mode issue in Column Editor. (Fix #15168)
• Fix a visual glitch of the toolbar pressed buttons in dark mode. (Fix #15225)
• Add auto-indent feature for Python. (Fix #15122)
• Fix the issue where “show control characters” settings not remembered when switching to another tab. (Fix #13988)
• Fix the missing monitoring disabled state icon from the fluent icon set on the toolbar. (Fix #15217)
• Adjusted the inaccurate naming of indent settings in thee Preferences dialog. (Fix issue)
• Fix the issue where the customized color of active tab in inactive view is missing. (Fix #15140)
• Introduce a new plugin command “NPPM_GETTABCOLORID” to retrieve the current tab color ID. (Fix #15115)
• Allow the tree view dark mode customization for plugins. (Fix #15077)
• Fix the popup dialog for updating not measuring 'Notepad++'. (Fix #14668)